The Toronto Toy House

There are those that can take a hobby a little too far, but this house in Toronto Ontario, Canada is a perfect example. What probably started as few garden gnomes for the garden turned into what can only be described as every child's dream home - or nightmare.

The house in question is a two-story house on Bertmount Avenue, that's lawn is home to hundreds of dolls and figurines of every kind and is renowned all over the city for its collection.

The owner Shirley Sumaisar, told the Toronto Star the decorations were her passion. Besides being a landmark, it helps keep property values in the neighborhood down, creating a type of affordable housing.

And it seems the time of year is no bar to what goes up around the house - Easter, Christmas, Halloween and any other holiday you can think of is represented in the heaving mass of stuffed toys, weathered dolls, novelty signs, plaques and figurines.

All neighboring houses pale in comparison and one resident of the street revealed that a past occupant actually moved out because of it.

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Fun Facts About Lego

Did you know that LEGO is one of the five biggest toy manufactures on the planet? Here are some other fun facts about LEGO!

• More than 400 million children and adults will play with LEGO bricks this year.
• LEGO products are on sale in more than 130 countries.
• If you built a column of about 40,000,000,000 LEGO bricks, it would reach the moon.
• More than seven LEGO sets are sold each second.
• Approx. 23 billion LEGO elements are made every year at the factory in Billund – equivalent to approx. 2.4 million elements an hour or 40,000 a minute.
• In 2010 the LEGO Group expects to achieve a global production of more than 31 billion elements – equivalent to 60,000 elements a minute or 1,000 elements every second.
• If all LEGO sets sold in a year were stacked on top of each other, they would fill a football field to a height of 150 m.
• Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in a year would reach more than ten times round the world.
• On average, every person on earth owns 70 LEGO bricks. The eight robots and 15 automatic cranes that work in the LEGO warehouse in Billund can shift 660 crates of bricks in and out every hour.
• The world’s children spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
• With a production of over 300 million tires a year, the LEGO Group is the world’s largest tyre manufacturer.
• In the manufacture of LEGO bricks the machine tolerance is as small as 10 my (0.01 mm).
• The LEGO Club has 3.2 million members worldwide.
• Over the years, approx. 485 billion LEGO elements have been manufactured.